Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., invoking the state's "massive resistance" laws, shut down to keep 51 Negro children out of white classrooms. Still doomed to attend makeshift classes in churches and lodge halls-or none at all-were 13,000 white children. Floundering along with no plan for tidying up the mess. Governor Almond heard a growing rumble of protest from parents and teachers. Items...
...Rommel Calls Cairo Monty won at El Alamein, even though the Afrika Korps knew his battle plan; the wicked Gestapo had branded it a plant. In The Green Devils of Monte Cassino the Germans held the abbey five months against heavy Allied attacks because their parachutists needed that time to bring its art treasures to the safety of the Vatican. In U-47, dashing Submariner Günther Prien plunks his torpedoes into the British battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, but when his deck officer shouts "Hurrah!", whispers: "Shut up; 2,000 men have just died aboard that ship...
...they are is to leave Cyprus stalked by terror, rent by hatred, and engulfed by fear. In the past month six British civilians, nine British soldiers, 13 Greek Cypriots and three Turk Cypriot policemen have been killed-one a day since Britain, over Greek objections, began enforcing its "partnership" plan, dividing Greek and Turkish Cypriots in separate legislatures...
...conference took up the ticklish problem of how to protect the rights of minorities among Nigeria's 250 tribes, Awolowo suggested creating three new states. The North's Sardauna, not wishing to relinquish any of his own territory, vetoed the idea. Nor did he like the plan for a centralized police force under the federal government: he much preferred to use his own force, which, answerable only to him, can pop a man in jail with no questions asked...
...Chemists have known for many years that protein molecules are made of amino acids (nitrogen-containing organic acids) strung together in long chains or cables. By various kinds of rough treatment, the chemists could separate and count the amino acid building blocks. But this did not reveal their structural plan...